And finally, the open beta app on my Xbox just says failed to connect, assuming due to the number of players. Wasted like 30 minutes of my life.

using my Xbox account, but that failed. So I created an account using just my email address. That was successful, but the entire web app is now in German (and no, I am not using a VPN). I found where to change the language to English, and I click the “submit” button and it just disappears.

hey, this is very confusing 👍